MAYOR JIM PETERSON Exposing the Ku Klux Klan SOPERTON DEFENDANTS FREED - Three defendants (top) were tried at Soperton, Ga. yesterday on charges of disorderly conduct and loitering as a result of Mayor James Peterson snatching Ku Klux masks from their faces. The defendants, who were freed of the ...

George Werley George Werley grew up in a baseball town during the World War II years. St. Louis was the home of the Cardinals and the Browns, though the latter never proved to be a winner. In three of the four summers of the war, the Cardinals won the National League pennant. When he was g...

Tales of a Twiggs Town They call this place Dry Branch, Georgia. There hasn't been a flood here in millions of years since the Atlantic Ocean pulled away from the fall line. But, eight to a dozen decades ago, the liquor flowed freely to the lovers of moonshine, while the teetotalers took no...

HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY, SAXON HEIGHTS SCHOOL! For all of the last one hundred years it has been there. Sitting on a hill under the shade of a canopy of mighty oaks, Saxon Heights Elementary School has been the place where children of Dublin have gone to learn their ABCs, reading, writing and ar...

CON WEDDINGTON "The Great Debater" In Con Weddington's day, the sport of debating was usually reserved for only the most promising, brilliant and fine young men. To be a collegiate debater, and a champion one at that, guaranteed that one would rise to the level of most elite of the er...

GOV. JOHN S. BARRY A Yankee Governor in a Georgia Court How could a New Hampshire born school teacher and a future Michigan governor wind up teaching public school in Irwinton, Georgia? And, how could he be a member of the bar in a small southern village, where the barristers were all Georgia...

THE RED SUMMER - Cheating the Hangman Part 4 of 4 John Cooper knew that if his client had any chance of being found innocent, he had to put him on the stand to make a statement without any cross examination by the State. Cummings gently walked to the stand to make an unsworn statement to the ju...